This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TeC.2ACE/1380 Message Board Post: Colin Chisholm, known as "Colin the rock", married Mary MacDonell and, according to published sources that I have seen, had three sons; Alexander who went to Canada, Allan "Mor" and Duncan both of whom were evicted from Muckerach and were moved down to Kerrow. Duncan later joined his son, Alexander in Canada (1822). I am working on a hypothesis that there were other children of Colin and Mary besides these three. I have seen it suggested that there was a sister, Ann, which would fit my hunch ... but only if there were others too! Does anyone have detailed knowledge of this family? Thanks Alastair

Where some of your Chisholms may have gone? The following info is from a book "Hoyes' Pioneer Families of Garrett County Maryland": The ancestry of this ancient Scottish clan is given at length in THE CHISHOLMS by James A. Nydegger. 'The family can be traced back from the present day for seven centuries through an unbroken descent in Scotland.' The names, Chisholme indicates a Norman origin. Malcolm, the historian, says the Chisholms came to Scotland from Tindale, England, soon after the Conquest, in A.D. 1066. The earliest document extant in which mention is made of the name, and relating to the family, is a bull of Pope Alexander IV, in which John de Chilholme is named in the year 1066...... William Chismolm, Sr., the immediate ancestor of the Chisholms of Maryland, was born in Strathdearn, Parish of Moy, Inverness, Scotland, in 1747, and lived there until, with his wife, he emigrated to the United States in 1822, subsequent to the emigration of the majority of his children, settling in Preston Co. Virginia, near Garrett County, MD, border. He was a farmer and smith in his native country and followed these occupations until near the time of his death. William Chisholm was a man of good education and great physical strength, and was possessed of much force of character and strong religious convictions. He died Sept. 21, 1836, and is interred in the Chishol cemetary on his estate, later the Dawson Farm. There are four more pages of the genealogy. Connie